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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:30:39 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) 
Message-ID:  <200102131630.f1DGUdU64790@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102131607.LAA30774@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> 

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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:38:40 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said:
> 
> > There is no concept of "forward" or "backward" as far as the toolchain and
> > runtime support goes.  There is only "filename exists" or "file not found".
> 
> This is a human-factors issue, not a code issue.  People expect to see
> version numbers increasing.

The proposal as it presently stands is to never let these reach beta
or -release.  -current developers can deal with this just fine, it is the
least of their problems.

However, some want these in -release too...  But that is a long way away.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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